Legal Events to Watch This Week

This week: The first major hearing in the thousands of concussion-related lawsuits against the NFL; the House Intelligence Committee will take up CISPA; the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider the nomination of Sri Srinivasan to the D.C. Circuit.

Tuesday, April 9

• A federal judge in Philadelphia will hear arguments over a motion to dismiss concussion-related lawsuits against the NFL filed by more than 4,000 former players. The NFL has argued that the claims are preempted by the collective bargaining agreement between the players association and the league.

• A Senate Judiciary subcommittee will hold a hearing on campaign finance enforcement. Mythili Raman, the acting head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, is slated to testify.